A fun way to start my DAY!!

  I had a nice little surprise to start my Monday and it was an email from my friend, Kerry telling me that I had won a Copic Coloring challenge over at iCopic!   Thanks Kerry - you made my day!!   

  This is the post from the Challenge site along with the brand new challenge which starts today!    Winner Challenge #30  --  Hello everyone! Samantha here to showcase the winner of the iCopic Weekly Challenge #30!   Everyone's blond hair projects this week were AWESOME!!  

The winner, as always, was chosen at random using Random.org.

Our winner is 16. Lis (ThePurplePlace) !!

Lis created this lovely card for our Blond challenge:

 Beautiful creation, Lis and congrats!!!   

Lis has won this awesome book:

 

 
  My special thanks to iCopic for a fun challenge and a fabulous prize!    Because, I already own this wonderful book, I'm asked iCopic to consider choosing another winner, but instead I was very happy to find out that I could select the new "Copic Coloring Guide" -- by Colleen Schaan and Marianne due out in June.  Woohoo!    I took my very first Copic Coloring class from Colleen and I'm a big fan of her talent.  I've know about the book for the past few months and can't wait to have my own copy!   Again....with Special thanks to iCopic!!

     I had already placed it on my wish list and I am very excited !   This is the new book I will be winning and it can be Pre-Ordered at iCopic now!!!     I love iCopic and I'm happy to be a Gold Member at the store!!

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     I'm back to share some new cards I have for today!  The first two cards were created for this week's Greeting Card Challenge over at 'The Outlawz' Group.   The challenge this week is to create a greeting card, with a twist....and the twist is that you can not use any stamp or digi, except for your Sentiment.   These are two cards I had created for the challenge and both were very fast and easy to make.  The papers are both from the Old World Stack by DCWV, which is one of the many Stacks that I have sitting in my paper stash.

 

    And I have one more card to share and it's one I created today for the challenge that stumped me so much yesterday!!   The CAS Challenge over at The Outlawz was to created a One Layer Card, which I found out, is NOT all as easy as you would thing.  (Please see my post from yesterday, and all the cards I made that id NOT work out).  I am very happy to have finally succeeded  and this is the card that I am submitting to the challenge today!!   WOOHOO!!!

  This was another really fun technique card and I started by picking out a shape that I wanted for my card.  I am in LOVE with my Grand Calibur and now that I have more sets of the Grand Dies I can create some really fun and unique card shapes in a large variety of sizes.   This is the Grand Labels Eleven and is a favorite.  Once I picked out my shape I took a piece of plain white cardstock and stamped and heat embossed my image (another new one from Hero Arts).  I  then used two Distress Stains (Spun Sugar and Fired Brick) and colored the background.  I topped it off by misting on a layer of Ranger Perfect Pearls Mist and then used my heat tool to dry it.  Once it totally dry,  used a Pearl Pen to embellish the flowers a and added a tiny black bow!!   I am now very happy that I have completed this card and happy to be submitting it to each of these fun new challenges!  

• Crafty Cardmakers - Challenge # 46 - Embossing
• Get Hippity with Ippity - Challenge # 2 - Flowers
• House of Gilli - Flowers Challenge
• Make It Monday - Challenge # 38- Anything Goes
• Stamps & Fun = Challenge # 48 - Flowers

   Now to be a bit of an enabler -- I wanted to tell anyone who has been interested in purchasing a Grand Calibur that AC Moore has them in their sales ad this week for ONLY $69.99, the best price I have ever seen.  They also have all the Grand Dies for $29.99 -- also a great price.  If you've been thinking of buying one, and have a AC Moore in your area--I would definitely take advantage of the sale!   This price is awesome and as far as I know it is good In-Store only!!   And this is the end of my enabling for the day!!